Another ingrown toenail surgeon here. Cut it out with a pocket knife and tweezers when I was a kid.
As an adult I removed the stitches from my infected "undercarriage" after a vasectomy. Self-absorbing stitches my a**.
I used to bother with the cutting out and all that.
Eventually I got sick of the thing and just ripped it out with my best pair of Knipex needle nose (cleaned with alcohol).
Dumb thing STILL came back again.
I've been very fortunate to avoid major injury for the most part.
There was that think-I-broke-my-neck-because-it-still-bothers-me-15-years later racquetball incident. Note: never dive in the direction of a wall if you might hit it and snap your neck.
Then there was the time I caught about 15 feet of air on an older XR350 Honda and "stuck' the landing. "Stick" meaning bending the handlerbars with my chin and taking out the gas tank (venting at the cap) with my sternum-- only after landing testicles-first on the seat. I've NEVER had the wind knocked out of me that bad, and I HOPE never again. I swore I was going to die.
I've had the usual knee scopes and shoulder scopes and all that, but NOTHING like what some of you guys are posting. It hurts just to read it!